Favor spanking to discipline child

spanking

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree that it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking?

Values

• [1] strongly agree

• [2] agree

• [3] disagree

• [4] strongly disagree

• [NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
-/-	1986
A/B	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for spanking.

Counts by year:

year	iap	strongly agree	agree	disagree	strongly disagree	don't know	no answer	skipped on web	Total
1986	-	404	816	195	45	9	1	-	1470
1988	493	302	476	145	55	8	2	-	1481
1989	531	315	455	169	55	9	3	-	1537
1990	444	261	466	154	36	8	3	-	1372
1991	493	263	485	194	65	15	2	-	1517
1993	526	243	538	210	70	15	4	-	1606
1994	1015	522	909	357	162	20	7	-	2992
1996	944	512	890	357	164	33	4	-	2904
1998	961	486	880	336	133	34	2	-	2832
2000	940	588	780	328	144	33	4	-	2817
2002	1857	272	387	176	64	6	3	-	2765
2004	1906	222	433	182	60	8	1	-	2812
2006	2518	532	893	402	143	20	2	-	4510
2008	694	342	608	280	78	18	3	-	2023
2010	614	336	647	324	110	10	3	-	2044
2012	672	302	598	277	100	21	4	-	1974
2014	863	378	777	365	139	12	4	-	2538
2016	979	457	817	440	152	15	7	-	2867
2018	789	340	700	368	121	23	7	-	2348
2021	1317	424	977	827	456	4	1	26	4032
2022	1168	434	887	634	389	23	2	7	3544
2024	1126	381	804	587	349	29	9	24	3309
Total	20850	8316	15223	7307	3090	373	78	57	55294

See also

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